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They differ from instrument to instrument, the fingering chart here show fingerings which I have found to be most useful on many different saxophones, but you can experiment by adding or taking away fingers to suit yours.
Lower Altissimo: F# 6 to A 6. This fingering chart includes both basic fingerings and alternatives that are more appropriate in some passages. Some alternate fingerings are designed for fast passages, while others modify the tone, color, or pitch at normal and extreme dynamic levels.
- Why Altissimo Fingerings Don’T Matter That Much
- What You Do (and Don’T) Need to Play in The Altissimo Range
- Altissimo Warm-Up Exercises
- How to Play Overtones
- Why It’S Important to Practice These Fundamentals
- How to Keep Your Throat Open and Relaxed
- Altissimo Fingerings For The Saxophone
- High Front E and Front F on Alto and Tenor Sax
- Altissimo F-Sharp and G on Alto Sax
- Altissimo F-Sharp and G on Tenor Sax
Most altissimo notes have several different possible fingerings. Why is that? It’s because the fingerings don’t really matter so much. It’s what you’re doing in your throat and what you’re doing with your embouchure and what’s going on in your head that’s going to help you get those notes out.
It’s also important to note you don’t need some special mouthpiece to play altissimo notes. With a well-balanced reedI can get all of my altissimo notes out on any of my mouthpieces and they’re all different — metal, hard rubber, large chamber, small chamber, baffle, no baffle. It doesn’t matter, so before we get into the fingerings, check out thes...
I start off all of my practice sessions with long tones and I play long tones over the entire range of my saxophone. I like to start in the middle, like middle C, and play a long tone on every note all the way down chromatically to low B-flat. Then I go back to the middle and do the same thing all the way up to my highest altissimo note until I don...
Overtones are when you finger one note, like low B-flat, on your saxophone, and you’re able to play several different notes in partials above the note with the same fingering. (It’s similar to how trumpet players get several different notes out of the same fingering.) If you don’t yet know what overtones are then you really shouldn’t be working on ...
If I don’t do that warm-up I’m going to get into all sorts of bad habits where I’m trying to force notes out with my embouchure by squeezing really hard. My throat is going to be closing off. I’m going to be dropping my jaw to get the low notesout. All of those things are typical bad habits and ways we cheat to try to get the extreme registers out....
While you’re working on all these sound exercises, you want to pay careful attention to the shape of your throat. You want it to be open and relaxed. Also pay attention to the position of your tongue. You don’t want your tongue to be closing off your throat. Try to get your tongue to relax and lay down flat.
Now let’s get into the fingerings. It’s important that we start out by using our front E, front F and front F-sharp fingerings first. Then we’ll be ready to slide on into altissimo G. For a refresher, check out my first introductory lesson to the altissimo range below: You can download a PDF version of the altissimo fingerings here. If you’ve got o...
All of these front fingerings and altissimo fingerings are with the octave key. We’re going to start with the note E, your high front E. Then we go on to the front F.
Now we get into our first altissimo note, F-sharp. On the alto saxophone you leave your F-natural down, add your bottom side-kick, your B-flat side key. That gives you F-sharp. Then to get to G we put our first finger down in the right hand and lift up the middle finger so now it’s just front F, first finger right hand and the B-flat side key.
F-sharp is different on tenor and alto saxophone. Sometimes I just add the side B-flat key as with the alto. This works on some tenors. But normally on tenor I add that side key, lift up my second finger and put down my first finger in the right hand. To get to G from here I lift up the first finger. So G is the front F key plus the B-flat side key...
Upper Altissimo: D 7 to D 8. This fingering chart includes both basic fingerings and alternatives that are more appropriate in some passages. Some alternate fingerings are designed for fast passages, while others modify the tone, color, or pitch at normal and extreme dynamic levels.
Saxophone Altissimo Fingering Chart. This listing of fingerings is derived from a compilation of several different sources, mostly trial and error and comparisons with fellow saxophonists.
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Oct 11, 2020 · Learn saxophone the FUN way from a top pro • Discover 6 different fingerings for every altissimo note on tenor sax • includes a free PDF fingering chart download •.
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Oct 4, 2020 · Learn saxophone the FUN way from a top pro • Discover 6 different fingerings for every altissimo note on alto sax • includes a free PDF fingering chart download •
